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I've thought about that, but haven't really found a good fit there, either. WordPress is massively insecure, so I don't trust that, and I'm not sure that it or any of the other major platforms would be better from a tracking/lack of minimalism standpoint. (I just checked, and my adblock finds 9 trackers on a tumblr blog.) FWIW, Medium only charges to read content where the author has chosen to accept paid subscriptions, which I haven't done (and don't intend to). But your point is well taken.

Ultimately it comes down to wanting someplace where I can be found by people who don't already know to look for me.

From a lack of tracking standpoint, write.as is good. They self-host their analytics (which adblock takes care of anyway), so all you'd have to deal with is the Google Font embed.

I'll think about posting my longer stuff here, I just find it a pain as I said to have to re-format things to display properly. The main thing is links, which I can't do inline here, and that makes for clunkier writing (or just not using them, which I'm not sure is better).

Is there another platform that I haven't thought of?

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~nargran wrote (thread):

Ultimately it comes down to wanting someplace where I can be found by people who don't already know to look for me.

Yes, I agree that that's more difficult when you self host, or if you use some more obscure service.

From a lack of tracking standpoint, write.as is good

I'll check it out, I'm less familiar with it than with the other two.

Is there another platform that I haven't thought of?

There is https://writefreely.org , which is a federated blogging platform. I don't have first hand experience with it though, so I don't really know whether it has an active community, but maybe it's worth it to take a look.

I just find it a pain as I said to have to re-format things to display properly.

That does sound like a hassle, especially after having done it many times. Do you think the reformatting could be automated, or does how it is redacted have to change substantially as well?